🕵️ Golden Age Detective

Classic-style mysteries built on fair-play clues, locked rooms, and the cerebral pleasure of solving the puzzle alongside a brilliant detective. Elegance and ingenuity over grit.

Tres ratones ciegos (La ratonera)

by Agatha Christie • 1950

A snowbound guesthouse traps newlyweds and their guests with a killer following a nursery rhyme.

3.79

21k+

🔒 Closed Circle Mystery 🔍 Amateur Sleuth 💔 Revenge Motive 🎭 Hidden Identities 🏰 English Country House

Tres ratones ciegos (La ratonera)

A snowbound guesthouse traps newlyweds and their guests with a killer following a nursery rhyme.

by Agatha Christie 1950

3.79

21k+ ratings

🔒 Closed Circle Mystery 🔍 Amateur Sleuth 💔 Revenge Motive 🎭 Hidden Identities 🏰 English Country House

A Murder Is Announced

by Agatha Christie • 1950

The local paper predicts a murder. When neighbors gather at dusk, the shooting is real.

4.01

88k+

🎭 Identity Swap 💰 Inheritance Plot 👁️ Unreliable Witness 🏘️ Small Town Secrets 👥 Ensemble Of Suspects

A Murder Is Announced

The local paper predicts a murder. When neighbors gather at dusk, the shooting is real.

by Agatha Christie 1950

4.01

88k+ ratings

🎭 Identity Swap 💰 Inheritance Plot 👁️ Unreliable Witness 🏘️ Small Town Secrets 👥 Ensemble Of Suspects

Five Little Pigs

by Agatha Christie • 1942

A woman asks Poirot to prove her mother innocent of murder, sixteen years after the execution.

4.03

96k+

🕰️ Cold Case Mystery 🧠 Psychological Mystery 🏡 Country House Mystery 🗣️ Conflicting Testimonies 🎨 Artist And Muse

Five Little Pigs

A woman asks Poirot to prove her mother innocent of murder, sixteen years after the execution.

by Agatha Christie 1942

4.03

96k+ ratings

🕰️ Cold Case Mystery 🧠 Psychological Mystery 🏡 Country House Mystery 🗣️ Conflicting Testimonies 🎨 Artist And Muse

Hickory Dickory Dock

by Agatha Christie • 1955

A student hostel's strange thefts conceal a killer. Only Hercule Poirot sees the pattern.

3.77

41k+

🔒 Closed Circle Mystery 🔍 Master Detective 🇬🇧 Postwar London 🤥 Unreliable Confessions 😈 Sociopathic Killer

Hickory Dickory Dock

A student hostel's strange thefts conceal a killer. Only Hercule Poirot sees the pattern.

by Agatha Christie 1955

3.77

41k+ ratings

🔒 Closed Circle Mystery 🔍 Master Detective 🇬🇧 Postwar London 🤥 Unreliable Confessions 😈 Sociopathic Killer

Dead Man's Folly

by Agatha Christie • 1956

During a country house fête, a staged murder game gives cover to a real killer.

3.82

39k+

🏡 Country House Mystery 🎪 Deadly Party Game 🎭 False Identity 🏚️ Aristocratic Decline 🌫️ Postwar Melancholy

Dead Man's Folly

During a country house fête, a staged murder game gives cover to a real killer.

by Agatha Christie 1956

3.82

39k+ ratings

🏡 Country House Mystery 🎪 Deadly Party Game 🎭 False Identity 🏚️ Aristocratic Decline 🌫️ Postwar Melancholy

Taken at the Flood

by Agatha Christie • 1948

When a blackmailer dies in a quiet village, Poirot finds every heir had reason to kill.

3.75

31k+

🇬🇧 Postwar England 🔪 Village Murder Mystery 🎭 False Identity Scheme 💰 Inheritance Plot 💀 Blackmail And Murder

Taken at the Flood

When a blackmailer dies in a quiet village, Poirot finds every heir had reason to kill.

by Agatha Christie 1948

3.75

31k+ ratings

🇬🇧 Postwar England 🔪 Village Murder Mystery 🎭 False Identity Scheme 💰 Inheritance Plot 💀 Blackmail And Murder

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